"Oh, it's hardly a big deal."
Liu Yuan reassured him, "It's all in the past now. Once we cooperate, we can look ahead."
"Alas..." When Di Tian turned his gaze toward Bi Ji and the others, his mind was filled with tangled thoughts, enough to draw an involuntary sigh from him.
After learning that the heavenly tribulations targeting soul beasts were rules the Dragon God had established within the cosmic will, Di Tian understood that he stood in the past, gazing toward their inevitable deaths in the future.
Besides, he was among those doomed to die, and he would even go before all the other soul beasts.
After all, his cultivation had already reached eight hundred and eighty thousand years.
In another twenty thousand years, another heavenly tribulation would come.
Di Tian had little confidence that he could survive the next one.
"With heavenly tribulations in place, the Dragon God was unworthy of being our common ruler!"
Hearing this, Liu Yuan inwardly clicked his tongue.
Di Tian had actually voiced such outrageously defiant words. Perhaps the deeper the love, the fiercer the hatred.
Just as Liu Yuan stood off to the side, quietly enjoying the spectacle, Di Tian suddenly looked at him, his expression both rueful and complicated. "The soul spirit system you've introduced has become our most viable way forward. At least transforming into divine consciousness would be equivalent to becoming a god."
"Oh, it's nothing, really-" Liu Yuan waved a hand, indicating that he wasn't the least bit proud. But Di Tian's next words left him stunned.
"What did you say?"
Liu Yuan cried out instinctively. With Di Tian's barrier in place, however, neither humans nor soul beasts could hear him.
He first glanced at Di Tian, then cast a sidelong look at the six ferocious beasts, deliberately